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Interests: playing piano and singing at the top of my lungs, scrapbooks, junk collecting, writing letters, learning about learning, photographing and videoing, crafts, language, miscellaneous musical instruments, skating
Expertise: reading multiple books simultaneously, organizing storage areas, eating snacks, speaking broken Spanish, lopsided scratch spins on ice, playing songs on the soprano recorder in the keys of C, G, D, A, Am, Em, Bm, F, F#m and Dm only, losing cars in the parking lot
Occupation: Engineering
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Member Since: 2/2/2004

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

you can get your own side of beef

I read in the paper that there are people buying half-cows (the smallest quantity available) at farms because they can be assured that the animals are humanely raised and are hormone and antibiotic-free. They need to buy a freezer just to hold the meat and it lasts them for a year!

So after weeks of substituting snacks for mealtime entrees, I finally went grocery shopping. I've broken my string of days gone by with out eating veggies and fruit. I'm trying to finish the groceries before they perish. I also feel burdened by the next shopping trip that's looming! How many chances have I missed to eat or make something tasty? No more non-tasty snacks.

Currently Reading
The Big Sleep
By Raymond Chandler
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

swimming

the lady swimming in the lane next to me was going so fast and swimming so effortlessly...she had on flippers.

my pores smell like chlorine and i like it.

Currently Reading
The Ratvolution Will Not Be Televised: A Pearls before Swine Collection (A Pearls Before Swine Collection)
By Stephan Pastis
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

snow there but not here

It snowed about a half an inch around where I work, enough that I had to brush the windows before pulling out of the lot at the end of the day. I must have been on the edge of the snowstorm, because within a few minutes of my drive (the total trip is less than 14 miles), there was only a dusting of powder on the ground. In another few minutes there was nothing. I got home at the same time as a neighbor, and when I got out of my car (with a layer of snow on the roof and hood) he asked me where I drove in from.
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New Soul
By Yael Naïm
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

AI7

How is it already season 7 of American Idol? I only caught one episode of the auditions this year, and tonight I'm watching the first day of the top 24. Many sound decent, but it's hard to tell from just this one performance. Are their pitch problems just from nerves for the first live show or is it a constant problem? They make Simon out to be such a meanie so that I'm surprised when he shows a genuine looking smile when someone cracks a joke. But i hate it when he doesn't laugh at jokes and when he's in a bad mood and says illogical things.

Miscellaneous comments: I liked the first few notes of David #1, liked David #2's rock rendition only because it was really different from the original version, Jason #1 had a sort of different voice, David is a baby but did really well, Danny has some personality, Jason #2 played his own guitar!, I like Michael's accent, but the singing was okay.

There are three contestantts from Indiana, and one each from Ohio and Virginia! One Asian American contestant!
Currently Reading
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5)
By J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré
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Friday, February 01, 2008

windshield wipers

i was using my windshield wipers because it was raining and then i drove through a bunch of HUGE potholes and it jolted one of the wipers loose and it was just hanging there!



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